So the UPS guy comes to the door yesterday. Usually he just drops the packages on the porch. This time he's standing there with a package for my wife. "Hey, what's going on," he says, "This isn't from Mouser!"

I have thursdays off so I place a Digikey order usually every Wednesday so it shows up on Thursday. My Purolator driver usually comes around 2:00. Today he came at 10:30 and commented about how he hoped he didn't wake me up (which he did)._________________-
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No, she orders from places with strange names you never heard of. For example someplace called landsend (can you really send land to people?), another called potterybarn (sounds hopeful, but nope, no connection to the Klee), and then there's harryanddavid (they sell food -- in case you can't get to the grocery store, I guess) ...

So the UPS guy comes to the door yesterday. Usually he just drops the packages on the porch. This time he's standing there with a package for my wife. "Hey, what's going on," he says, "This isn't from Mouser!

If DIY electronics ever had a Vaudeville Circuit, this would be the opening joke.

My wife is accustomed to a lot of parcels arriving, too.
And the neighbours take them occasionaly - as we are taking theirs.

So one day my wife calls me there's a *huge* package for the neighbours (who were on holidays), and it's now stored in our car port.

When the neighbours came back, they said, oh yes, that must be the palm tree.

Palm tree ?!

We thought it was a plant ... not very likely to survive in German climate ...

Weeks later, he started to dig a hole in his garden, filled it with concrete, and now we have a 3m high eyesore, a bright yellow plastic palm tree, in our view. Well, at least the children like it ...
Did I mention its leaves make a light show, too ?!

JH.

ETA: Thinking of it, I forgot to tell my wife about the package that will arrive today, with several hundreds of padded envolopes ...Last edited by jhaible on Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:38 am; edited 1 time in total

Post pix!
Post videos!
Post the damned plastic tree!
This we must see!

I'll take a photo on the weekend.

He's a very friendly and helpful neighbour, and I didn't have the heart to tell him what it looks like ...

OTOH, I heard that palm tree will be a topic at next year's parish fair parade ...

JH._________________"I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mk 11,23f)

Weeks later, he started to dig a hole in his garden, filled it with concrete, and now we have a 3m high eyesore, a bright yellow plastic palm tree, in our view. Well, at least the children like it ...
Did I mention its leaves make a light show, too ?!

Since I live in LA, I can easily procure and post to you some life-size pink plastic flamingos, if the illuminated palm tree is lonely...

I'll post a pic of my tree, but it looks better at night time. I was waiting for the sun to set. Hope you can wait a couple of hours. I know it's tough, but I promise, it's worth the wait._________________--Howard
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You guys are cruel.
My brain has almost learned to filter the sight of the palm tree out, and now here I am waiting for it to be illumitated again, so I can take a photo!
Sorry, Ian, for having planted palm trees in your thread.

JH._________________"I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mk 11,23f)

Here is our palm. I enjoy sitting under it drinking a cup of coffee and watching the birds eating from our bird feeders. The tree makes multiple reflections and at nite it looks like we are in a forest of illuminated palms.

We are hoping that we'll get some plastic flamingos to land near the tree, but so far only finches, nut hatches, titmice, chickadees, doves, and a hawk that eats them. I would like to see a hawk try to dine on a plastic flamingo. Evolution is an amazing thing._________________--Howard
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